Our speaker this week is Oliver Pooley, giving a talk in Geneva on Relativity and the growing block. Join us there, or at UIC via video link. More details in the links above.
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Essay Contest 2016
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first essay prize!
In alphabetical order:
“Back to Parmenides” Henrique Gomes (Perimeter Institute)
“Taking Up Superspace” Tushar Menon (Oxford)
“What can (mathematical) categories tell us about space time?” Ko Sanders (Leipzig)
Congratulations to them, and commiserations to the authors of the many other excellent papers that were submitted. Thanks to them all for their patience with the judging process. Even bigger thanks to the referees, who worked very hard.
Look for talks by the winners in the next few months, and for their papers online (TBA) and ultimately in edited volumes we are planning on the philosophy and foundations of quantum gravity.
New video!
We have the polished version of Richard Dawid’s talk on YouTube now — and the livestream version of Dean Rickles’ is also available (we are busy polishing a version of that too!).
April Talks!
April is a busy month for the project – we have talks scheduled from Dean Rickles (April 6th), Oliver Pooley (April 13th), and Karen Crowther (April 27th). Join us in person or virtually. Full details under the tab above.
Rickles will be talking on Dual theories: ‘Same but different’ or ‘different but same’?
Pre-doctoral Fellowship to visit UIC
We are very excited to announce a fellowship for PhD students at other institutions to join the project at UIC for six months or a year. If you are writing a dissertation in the philosophy of quantum gravity broadly construed, we can provide a (generous) stipend for you to spend time working with us in Chicago, and participating in the activities of the project. For information on the position(s) and how to apply, see above or the following link.
https://beyondspacetime.net/uic-pre-doctoral-fellowship/
Please share this news!
(Note: the position can start in fall 2016, but we will seriously consider applications for periods after that.)
Essay Prize Update
Many apologies to entrants to our essay prize contest for the delay in announcing the results. We were delayed first by extending the submission deadline, and then for a couple more weeks by events beyond our control. But our process should have been more resilient, so we do apologize, and thank you for your patience.
We now confidently expect to make an announcement by April 8th.
Summer school – applications due this week
Just a reminder that applications for our (close to) Chicago summer school are due by March 16th – no registration fee, and we provide room and board. Please contact us with any questions.
For full information, https://beyondspacetime.net/2016summerschool/.
Dawid, Chen, and Wilson to Speak at UIC!
• On Wednesday February 24th, Richard Dawid will speak at UIC on String Dualities and Empirical Equivalence.
• Next week, Wednesday March 2nd, we have our first double header:
(1) Eddy Keming Chen (Rutgers): Our Fundamental Physical Space and the Quantum Wave Function
(2) Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): Emergent Spacetime: Grounded or Caused?
More details on the Speakers page that you can access above. We expect to livestream both events on YouTube.
Alyssa Ney joins the summer school!
We are very happy to announce that Alyssa Ney (UC Davis) will be on the faculty of our summer school. Get those applications in!
New predocs at Geneva
The Geneva Center welcomes our two new predoctoral fellows, who have started earlier this week: Radin Dardashti, who is completing his PhD at the LMU Munich, and Juliusz Doboszewski, who is working on his PhD at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. Both of them will participate in the various activities of the Templeton-funded project Space and Time After Quantum Gravity and will also give talks during spring semester. Watch this space for more on their activities!
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